docs/86234: Need to explain * in master.passwd in passwd.5 man page
Paul Hoffman
phoffman at above.proper.com
Fri Sep 16 22:50:04 UTC 2005
>Number: 86234
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Need to explain * in master.passwd in passwd.5 man page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 16 22:50:02 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Paul Hoffman
>Release: FreeBSD 5.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
All
>Description:
The passwd.5 man page describes what * in the password field for the
passwd file means, but not for master.passwd, which turns out to use
* for a very different (and good) purpose.
>How-To-Repeat:
man 5 master.passwd
>Fix:
At the end of the paragraph that begins "The password field is the
encrypted form...", add:
In the master.passwd file, a password of "*" is used to indicate that no
one can ever log into that account. The field only contains encrypted
passwords, and "*" can never be the result of encrypting a password.
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